Class inheritance for variable declaration with initial value

SystemVerilog
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In reply to mlsxdx:

I think oyu are confusing overwriting the initial value with adding a new class variable. Your class B adds another variable called “name” that is only visible in the extended class. That is why you needed virtual method get_name in the extended class to access it. What you could do is overwrite name in the extended constructor.

class A;
   string name = "A";
   virtual function void print_it();
     $display("name:%s",name);
   endfunction
endclass
 
class B extends A;
 function new;
   name = "B";
 endfunction
endclass